Genetic and activity-dependent mechanisms underlying interneuron diversity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 299-309

  Wamsley, Brie ^a   Fishell, Gord ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 85017104220     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.30     Document Type: Review

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